Word: grandpas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tried to ignore the clamoring, rioting unemployed but had to listen to their parliamentary champion, "Grandpa" George Lansbury, Leader of the Labor Party, who shouted, "I demand that the damnable 'means test'* be abolished and every man given a chance of decent existence...
...Last week, no longer spat-wearing but still jovial, foxy-grandpa-esque, Cartoonist Young, 66, went to Manhattan from Danbury, Conn, where he had spent the winter, to tell about a new book he has written & illustrated. Forty years ago he did a book on Hell. Now he has revisited Hell, found and portrayed it as a high-class modern community, completely taken over by Capitalist Exploiters, with the Old Boy Himself relegated to the background by powers-behind-the-throne...
...story Old Man Minick. The chronicle of a quavering gaffer who never really enjoyed himself until he got to the Old Men's Home where he could play checkers with his cronies, had possibilities for the cinema which have been firmly overlooked. Minick (Sale) is a pigeonhole grandpa and the picture, mainly composed of watery pathos, has only one genuine sequence-when Sale upsets a club-meeting at his daughter-in-law's house by delivering homilies on the care and upbringing of small children...
Birth of a son in Shanghai last week to Edda, Countess Ciano (nee Mussolini) made // Duce for the first time a grandparent. Parent Count Ciano is the Italian consul at Shanghai. In Rome last week virile, vigorous Grandpa Mussolini...
...loth anniversary (next year) of Fascism's March on Rome to include "the greatest assemblage of armed forces that the Eternal City has seen for two milleniums!" Grandiose, this expansion took place at a session of the Fascist Grand Council in that intoxicating chamber at the Palazzo Yenezia, Grandpa Mussolini's "World Map Room...